Available now · senior roles · remote

Hi, I’m Ankur.

Full-Stack Engineer · AI-Native · Web3 / DeFi

10+ years building interfaces where the stakes are real — vaults for a $2B+ TVL restaking protocol, a Poker lobby on a platform with 100M+ registered users.

See my work ↓Résumé ↗

Stop 1 · The climb

Ten years, one step at a time.

Jun 2015 — Jan 2019 · Bangalore

Cientra · AI Software Engineer II

Core engineer on Lucy AI, an NLP knowledge-synthesis platform built on IBM Watson.
Shipped role-based access control, dynamic Highcharts/Chart.js competitive-intelligence dashboards and an in-app chat interface.
Led the AngularJS → Angular 7 migration.
Built Java and Node.js REST APIs over PostgreSQL and CouchDB with AWS SNS/SQS.

Angular
Java
Node.js
PostgreSQL
AWS

Feb 2019 — Dec 2021 · Bangalore

Cisco Systems · Software Engineer III

Built CCUC, a Unified Call Manager analytics dashboard (Angular, React, Chart.js) used by enterprise network operators.
Delivered the management UI and API surface for a new hardware line ahead of launch, including native device UI in C/Go and Go REST services.
Wrote REST APIs in Java and Node.js with AWS SNS/SQS event pipelines, and authored the team's Docker images and local compose setup.

Angular
React
Go
Java
Docker

Jun 2022 — Mar 2024 · Bangalore

Games24x7 · Software Engineer II

Rebuilt the Poker game lobby in React Native — cash and tournament listings, nested navigation, modals and bottom sheets.
Shipped a shared component library and Redux/RTK Query data layer adopted across game surfaces, removing duplicated state logic between teams.
Built the SNL configuration portal (React + Redux) letting ops teams launch tournaments and templates without engineering involvement.
Wrote Node.js proxy APIs to decouple clients from backend contracts, and delivered Next.js SSR pages for webview surfaces on low-end Android devices.

React Native
Redux
RTK Query
Next.js
Node.js

Apr 2024 — Present · Remote

KernelDAO (Kelp) · Frontend Engineer

Owned the staking and vaults frontend — the primary surface through which users deposit into and exit a $2B+ TVL restaking protocol.
Rebuilt core staking flows in Next.js and TypeScript, cutting failed transactions through pre-flight simulation, clearer gas estimation and explicit slippage and approval states.
Built the wallet layer on wagmi/viem, handling chain switching, signature rejection and reconnect edge cases across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Linea and Mantle.
Wired position and yield feeds from The Graph subgraphs and internal APIs, with a TanStack Query caching layer that eliminated redundant RPC calls.